Jewish Values

The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable developed the Racial Justice Framework to help guide and support our collective efforts around racial justice. It was introduced earlier this year. The Framework is a tool to help build the capacities of Jewish organizations to be more racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just.

Voices of Roundtable Organizations and Staff
Our affiliates are doing ground-breaking work every day and we are thrilled to highlight a few of them here! Please read the pieces below and share them widely on social media!

Each year, the Jewish social justice field brings messages of liberation and justice to your Passover Seder. As a community rooted in and dedicated to justice, we offer 2020 Passover resources from affiliates of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Enjoy, engage, wrestle, and learn – and share widely. Chag Sameach!

Abby Levine, the Roundtable's Director, and April Baskin, the Roundtable's Racial Justice Director, published Four Insights for Realizing Racial Justice in the Jewish New Year on September 17, 2019, in eJewishPhilanthropy.
In this OpEd, they examine four lessons learned since the Roundtable committed to racial justice trainings in 2016.

The Jewish community is standing up strongly against immoral family separation of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. For up to date actions and statements from the Jewish community unified in opposition to family separation, click here.